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fragments 1 & 2 published belfield literary review(N°2)
from “Violence” I am breathing. I am breathing lightly as, light as, shell — / breath as, moth — / breath as, bird — / breath moon’s faces a triptych sets Mars’ red against turquoise — a sister, (less 6) * serious now, it is — (a purple sonority pageant of silks, their faces — […]
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hook,&: sequins,&: spool,&: red on gold, the new dress at indelible Literary journal, issue no.6; the feminine.
hook a hook for an eye this ribbon for a slip there’s a pigeon in the pot and tree makes the room your foot on the boards your head in the sky no mind if your stockings snag are splinter-caught the red thread frayed or snag walk now on swollen feet on feet that are […]
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leaf // settles – UCD Pandemic Archive
From the Lares Series. V. leaf // Settles Jewelling | nowhere her Garnets tempering | Scarlet on steel the Sky— a Leaf there is © Chris Murray Published Poetry in Lockdown; A Pandemic Archive, UCD Online URL: https://libguides.ucd.ie/lockdownpoetry The Lares series was first published in The Indelible Literary Journal, January 2021 and was written in […]
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winter street -Jacar Press
the black mountains rise up cities cloud-urban citadels not the crow clang-tapping a tin post not the screel and soar of the gull can prevent it tails of berries strew the ground littered already with wasp-hasps wet leaves rain washed the trees out my body in its wet and dry calls yours it does not […]
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nocturne for voices one and two – lyric fm
My poem Nocturne for Voices One and Two – excerpted below this note, was first published in the book Gold Friend (Turas Press, 2020). Una Lee produced the poem in her album Songs to stay awake to in 2020. Una Lee’s interpretation of the poem is featured in How The World Begins- Irish Women In […]
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Amber thrones Wearing dark robes they send their light Down / \ below / a bird / note / rises / up
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seed – timber poetry journal, 11.2
Seed Willow, cut to its hidden houses something secret furls unfurls its stem-self seed slopes slews under crystal skin (its) flesh blooms to tone – coralling a milky alumben in water’s distress, floats, |stays| alive winds its silver thread in brine – fleshed frond & secret, still – a silver thread pulls-up willow’s Ochre curtain. […]
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notes on panic, and: in the dark i feel, and: small bird voice – revista itaca
Notes on panic Shall I regard the dark knowing it is past? Enmeshed in the ‘once was’ certain– scored, a stampede carrying thunder into my corridors, chambers, a knife– Revistant Pass! In the dark I feel, dark edges pressed-down ridged— tight-laced-seals Soul is unquiet – its speaking voice is the sea— Rain, rain falls on […]
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lily crowded window – formafluens literary journal
Lily crowded window her not-breath, mine signs our presence at the glass, | hers and mine, our presence | Blue Milk, the cooling sun plays her opaques, leaf speckles, variegations. Retreat now, She drains into winter’s dark work July-begun. She drains North. Setting to rest yellow-tips brown, Sun-held-once. Something in secret furls, unfurls its stem-self […]
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‘moi et la village’ (d’après Marc Chagall) / i and the village (after Marc Chagall) – Recours au Poème
moi et le Village (d’après Marc Chagall) Version française, Elizabeth Brunazzi La rosée découle en jade une lune aux trois quarts L’Amour O l’amour! Ta fleur arrachée embaume De son parfarm ma main, bientôt bientôt me rappelant une certaine musique- Mon destin a toujours été de quitter le lieu où la lune dansait avec la […]
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